Kellogg-Briand Pact 1928

Treaty between the United States and other Powers providing for the renunciation of war as an
instrument of national policy. Signed at Paris, August 27, 1928; ratification advised by the
Senate, January 16, 1929; ratified by the President, January 17, 1929; instruments of
ratification deposited at Washington by the United States of America, Australia, Dominion of
Canada, Czechoslovkia, Germany, Great Britain, India, Irish Free State, Italy, New Zealand,
and Union of South Africa, March 2, 1929: By Poland, March 26, 1929; by Belgium, March 27
1929; by France, April 22, 1929; by Japan, July 24, 1929; proclaimed, July 24, 1929.
ARTICLE I
The High Contracting Parties solemnly declare in the names of their respective peoples that they
condemn recourse to war for the solution of international controversies, and renounce it, as an
instrument of national policy in their relations with one another.
ARTICLE II
The High Contracting Parties agree that the settlement or solution of all disputes or conflicts of
whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them, shall never be
sought except by pacific means.
ARTICLE III
The present Treaty shall be ratified by the High Contracting Parties named in the Preamble in
accordance with their respective constitutional requirements, and shall take effect as between
them as soon as all their several instruments of ratification shall have been deposited at
Washington.
DONE at Paris, the twenty seventh day of August in the year one thousand nine hundred and
twenty-eight.
FRANK B. KELLOGG
Secretary of State of the United States of America